Batman will not sit still and get shot with a repulsor. If Captian America can defeat Ironman, Batman can. Where does it say all Starks suits are EMP proof. In the first movie his ark reactor in his chest almost powered down when the bigger Reactor blew up and sent out that EMP blast.

@Hush2010 Iron Man always improves. Cap doesn't improve. Batman improves a bit. If there's one comic character that always improve it's Iron Man. Just look at the evolution of his armors, you know this character is bad ass in terms of improving his stuff.

81 story doesn't matter because current Iron Man have armor embedded inside his body, significant technopathy (that means he doesn't need a Bat computer), can create almost any tools from his liquid metal armor (which means he doesn't need to have a Bat belt) and friggin multi task like hell. Heck he beat Mr Fantastic in simultaneous chess match.

Conclusion: Your father Iron Man is not the same as current Iron Man. Iron Man is tech just like your IPod to your father Rolodex. Can you say the same for Batman?

Please dont go down the 'batman is a great planner given time to llan he could win and find a weekness...' NO stark is more intelligent than wayne, standard. [frick]ing batman fanboys...

@hush - i believe that captain america could also beat batman so your point is void, and as johntom said that was 81, this is now ironman beat the crap outta cap in the civil war arc.

@ Dnno1 - so would batman, if he fought without his suit on and both without gadgets i think it would go to bats, but i think were supposed to assume they both have their suits on, in which case ironman would destroy him.

@Vinno "Find weakness"? Hell Iron Man has one of the best scanning visors among superheroes. Iron Man always scans his opponents for weakness. Remember the multi info HUD in the movie? Yeah, I'm talking about that. He'd scan Batman right at the spot while Batman needs to run back to his Batcave to check with his Bat Computer.

These Batfans don't know who they're dealing with this time. Iron Man is what Batman would become if he doesn't rely on writer's crutch or PIS. There's no need to suspend disbelief if Thor smacks Iron Man on the head because Iron Man wears protection. Batman hides behind fanboys belief that his body is made of Adamantium when Superman spanks him.

Iron man so would loose. I mean, cap had the upper hand on him, and bat is smart enough and has the resources. Bat is also smarter then stark...he did have a plan to take out the whole Justice League.. Bat wins hands down.

Cap needs Vision to win at the end of CW. Iron Man armor was disabled because Vision phased to his armor. But Iron Man spanked Cap twice during CW: a) Iron Man recorded Cap moves, countering all Cap fighting styles b) by sonic attack that makes Cap and his teams writhes in agony until Hercules saved him. One on One Iron Man can beat Cap, but Tony always respect his friend Steve Rogers or Thor will beat him senseless :)

Batman has the resources? I've never seen him fielding a large army of Bat bots. Iron Man always has his army of Iron Men hidden somewhere. One of them (a Hulkbuster) beat a group of Avengers with Cap, Wolverine, and Spider-Man in it...

@johntom - I don't know what point you were trying to make there but I agreed with you from the get go lol, that is what I was trying to say, everyone is always saying, 'batman is a great planner he would run off like a bitch and plan' and when people are saying that batman found a weakness for everyone in the JL, well guess what BITCHES, ironman aint in JL, so, if the situation was to arise, batman would shit him self, and recieve a sonic blast to the face, BA BOOM.

And no wayne isn't more intelligent than stark, and he doesnt have more resources, maybe equal resources, but stark has the intelligence to invent new weapons.

BTW I am a fan of batman, but dang not so hard that I think no one could beat him.

@Vinno I'm agreeing with you, sorry if I may look like arguing with you. Iron Man is Batman that carries his Batcave all over because all the computer and most of his research tools are in the armor. It's hard to beat a man that comes up so prepared, even more prepared than Batman will ever be in any chance situation. Tony's weakness is he sometimes lowers his guard down but it's a different deal when he's in the armor.

I'm a fan of Batman that he realistically can take down Cap by his resources. But Iron Man is just of a higher league. Stark make weapons, create engineering wonders, kill efficiently, and there's no Lucius Fox. Stark makes his own stuff.

On power alone, Iron Man would win. However, fighting isn't about brute power, it's about tactics. Bats spent years learning every fighting style known to man, he's an expert in escapology and has stealth that is matched by none. He's also almost as intelligent as Tony, he just doesn't let on. Batman would find a way to shut down Iron Man's suit before he actually fought him, he'd hack into the suit's mainframe, or break into Tony's office and shut it down from there, or even get his anti-Marvel character spray out of his utility belt :P

So yeah Tony is smarter when it comes to inventions, etc, but Bruce is a much more tactically intelligent and efficient fighter, I think Batman would JUST clinch it. It'd be brutal though. And let's not forget, Batman DID destroy Darkseid, did he not (or he at least set Darkseid's destruction in motion, havent read the issue)?

ACira good point & also Batman would win because Batman has resilience and out of the suits Bruce Wayne would beat Tony Stark down due to his training because Bruce can fight in and out of the suit. & though Stark is smart, Wayne is smarter & obsessed with solving matters & by the way Bruce Wayne is richer because even fortune 500 agrees so & though Stark is rich, Wayne is a better businessman and Wayne Industries has developments all over the world when it comes to some weapons (because remember Bruce does not promote some weapons)& gear for the military & medicine & everyone knows how valuable medicine is.I like Ironman/Tony Stark but I gotta go with the DC big gun The Batman/Bruce Wayne & thats the bottomline!

Again I reiterate, BATMAN ALWAYS WINS. Only because thats the rule. I wanted someone to argue and prove how incredable the Ironman charictor is. Thats why I started the whole debate. I must agree with the majority of you and say that batman with no prep cannot compare to Ironman.

We must also factor in how many drinks Stark has had before the battle began.

@ Johntorn

The Extremis storyline is retarded. I mean come on an armor hidden beneath the skin. Its too far a stretch for me. I agree with you Ironman would win but whenever Bats is in a poll I will always vote for him as testament to how great a charictor he is and to see peoplw like you argue.

Extremis storyline is as farfetched as the fantastic story of Flash or Spider-Man. It's comics. Fantasy could happen, but I don't go so far "Mr A always win" because even in Fantasy there's cause and effect. There is order so to speak, you can't pull something out of thin air.

you guys act like batman fights fare, batman is also a dirty fighter he will take every advantage he can get and has no shame in doing so. he will take pepper as a hostage(bang her and give her back to iron man all wet) and turn her on stark. batman will from his head quarters disable all starks systems with a radical virus stark is not ready for.

@thegamedrex so that's how Batman plans out when confronting Iron Man?

While Batman is dreaming on that Tony already has decloaked multiple stealth Iron Men, hack the Batcomputer, and have his Live Model Decoys bang Catwoman/Oracle/Dick Gryason on his order, let loose a contained nuclear attack within 1 km radius, and target his space laser if Batman ever survives the nuclear blast.

Prep time nullified because there's simply no time to Prep. Tony Stark can multitask all his moves in a matter of seconds and without the need for talking because his brain is wired.

Tony Stark is a supergenius on par with many superhuman intelligences from around the galaxy. He didn't know what to do with his brilliance until the world gave him a decent challenge and he came up with Iron Man. He constantly thinks five thousand steps ahead. He kept a hair from the first time he met Thor JUST ON THE OFF CHANCE he needed the DNA of a god for anything. The second he even heard of Batman, he'd come up with a solution for how to destroy him, encrypt it, store a copy in every Iron Man suit he owns, and then erase his own memory so no one would know he'd ever given Batman a second thought.

Bruce Wayne is an extremely talented detective, martial artist and tactician; perhaps the best in the world. But his hand-to-hand skills don't count for jack. You don't punch a tank unless you want a broken hand. His detective and tactical skills MIGHT help him discover a weakness in Tony's armor, but he also relies on other people to create his tech, do his surveillance and provide intel while he's in the field. All these functions are at the tip of Tony's brain when he's in the suit.

Not to mention none of Batman's "standard" gadgets would make so much as a dent in the Iron Man armor. And any time he's had to develop specialized anti-avenger gadgets, we have to assume Tony's had equal time to upgrade his armor.

Given a motive, could Batman assassinate Tony Stark? Sure. The same could be said about the reverse. Could he beat him in a face to face fight where both parties are even remotely prepared for battle? Absolutely not. No contest. Iron Man wins.